Improvement in scraper attachments for plows



UNrTED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EUGENE SLOSSON, OF MORRIS, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN SCRAP ER ATTACHMENTS FOR PLOWS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. [73,565, dated February15, 1876; application filed October 23, I875.

Fig.3 is a detail top view of the scraper, the

standard being'shown in section through the line y 3 Fig. 2. 5

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts. v

The object of this invention is to furnish an improved scraperattachment for wheel cornplows, which shall be so constructed as toallow the scraper to be adjusted at any desired angle, and which shallbe simple in construction, effective in operation, and convenient inuse, being easily attached to and detached from the beams of thecorn-plow.

The invention will first be described in connection with the drawing andthen pointed out in the claims.

A are the scraper plates or blades, to which are rigidly attached twoarms or supports, B. The arms B are so formed as to fit against theopposite sides of the lower ends of the standards 0, to which they aresecured by a bolt, 0, thus pivoting the said scrapers to the saidstandards. The ends of the arms B project at the rear side of thestandards 0, and have holes formed through them to receive wooden pinsD, which are made sufficiently strong to resist the draftstrain underordinary circumstances, but which, should the scrapers A strike anobstruction, will break and allow the scrapers to swing back to preventthem from being broken. E is a wedge interposed between the wooden pin Dand the standard 0, so that by forcing the said wedge E down or up thepitch of the scrapers A may be adjusted, as

connections that will give the braces I the necessary play. Thestandards (3 are extended upward so far that the cross-bar H may beabove the drivers seat. 'J are arms, the

rear ends of which are rigidly attached to the standards 0, and whichare designed to be bolted to the plow-beams, the ordinary standardsbeing detached from said beams. The standards G are strengthened againstthe draft-strain by the braces K, the forward ends of which are securedto the forward ends of the arms J, and their rear ends are secured tothe lower parts of the said standards 0.

Having thus described my invention, I

claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. The combination,with scraper-plate A and standard 0, of the connecting-plates B B,rigidly fastened to the former, andi'pivoted to the latter, as and forthe purpose decribed.

2. The combination of plates A B and standard G,the former pivoted toand projecting behind the latter, witha cross-pin, D, and wedge E, toadjust pitch of scrapers, as set forth.

3. The combination, with scrapers A, attached to pivoted plates B, ofstandards 0 O,

crossbar H, and' braces I, all loosely connected, as and for the purposespecified.

v EUGENE SLOSSON.

Witnesses:

' WILLIAM DEWEY,

RUFUS K. SLOSSON.

